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		<title>Don’t Wake the Sleeping Bear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all of the nuclear drama that is going on these days, reductions in strategic nuclear forces for the United States and Russia has fallen by the wayside.  Perhaps that is a good thing.  Certainly there are many nuclear threats out there—Iran, North Korea—that the U.S. needs to focus on.  Unfortunately, nuclear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/11/01/don%e2%80%99t-wake-the-sleeping-bear/</link>
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		<title>Election Special - Nonproliferation Views, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Presidential election fast approaching, it is a good time to examine where Senators Barack Obama and John McCain stand on the issues of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation. This two part series will address this topic, focusing on the stance each candidate takes on WMD issues, and how their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/10/07/election-special-nonproliferation-views/</link>
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		<title>Ask McCain and Obama about Missile Defense - Philip Coyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Missile defense is the most expensive defense procurement program in history. Since President Reagan’s famous &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; speech in 1983, the U.S. has spent at least $120 billion on missile defense. Over the next five years, the Pentagon has requested another $62.5 billion for missile defense, with no end in sight.
If the next U.S. President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/09/18/ask-mccain-and-obama-about-missile-defense-philip-coyle/</link>
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		<title>Election Special—Nonproliferation Views, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Presidential election fast approaching, it is a good time to examine where Senators Barack Obama and John McCain stand on the issues of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation. This two part series will address this topic, focusing on the stance each candidate takes on WMD issues, and how their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/09/12/election-special%e2%80%94nonproliferation-views-part-1/</link>
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		<title>It’s 5 Minutes to Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 17, 2007, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, where it presently remains at five minutes to midnight.  The Doomsday Clock measures how close the world is to self destructing – mainly via nuclear weapons.  In a press release, the scientific group explains the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/08/20/it%e2%80%99s-5-minutes-to-midnight/</link>
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		<title>The India Deal - A Setback for Nonproliferation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We who are interested in reducing global nuclear dangers have a responsibility to block a proposed arrangement in which the U.S. will sell its nuclear technology India.   Here are the main problems with the deal:
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		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/07/28/the-india-deal-a-setback-for-nonproliferation/</link>
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		<title>Is the NPT a Relic of the Cold War?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 1st is the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).  At the height of the Cold War, the NPT forged a new path in international politics by derailing nuclear proliferation.  With the recent world changes, though, it is not certain that NPT will continue to be effective in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/07/03/is-the-npt-a-relic-of-the-cold-war/</link>
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		<title>Diplomacy 101—Advice For the Next U.S. President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During a speech given while celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, President Bush stated, “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along…. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/06/21/diplomacy-101%e2%80%94advice-for-the-next-us-president/</link>
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		<title>The Time Has Come to Ratify CTBT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is pushing for all remaining nations to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), so that the treaty may come into force as soon as possible.  The treaty bans all nuclear weapons test explosions.  CTBT was adopted by resolution in the General Assembly in September 1996, and met with resounding support. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/06/07/the-time-has-come-to-ratify-ctbt/</link>
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		<title>NMD - Unnecessary, Ineffective, and Provocative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March and April, the House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee held three hearings on the national missile defense (NMD) system.  Originally conceived by President Reagan, and known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (nicknamed Star Wars by critics), the concept of NMD was to use space-based interceptors or nuclear-bomb pumped lasers to shoot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/05/16/24/</link>
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